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NUKE ROCKY44


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MEDIA ADVISORY : M10-167
 
 
NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2
 
 
WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2010/nov/HQ_M10-167_Astrobiology.html

P.S. I hope this is not connected w/ any wikileaks secret memo release stuff.

-- Edited by NUKE ROCKY44 on Wednesday 1st of December 2010 03:13:14 AM

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Oops! The fight for life is on.

According to this bio-statistician's blog:

[Headlines are saying today that NASA found microbes that use arsenic the way all other known life uses phosphorous.

These headlines are misleading.

The phrase arsenic-based life is misleading because most people would assume this is in contrast to carbon-based life. No, the discovery involves substituting arsenic for phosphorous. So this new microbe is only arsenic-based in the sense that most life is phosphorous-based. Actually, even that is not correct. This is a phosphorous-based life form that has been tricked into using arsenic.]

JC blog link

I sort of agree with Cook it ain't a big deal discovery-it's really old fashion hype.
If you want big deal headlines it would read:

"Alien Microbial Form Metabolizes Cancer Cures Earth Dwelling Humans of Cancer." 



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